TELEGRAM TO V. I. LEDOVSKIY

The decisions of this collegium are binding on all organs managing transport affairs, regardless of which ministry they fall under.

The collegium is responsible before the Supreme Soviet of the National Economy and before the Council of People's Commissars.

The project was written and proposed by M. K. Vladimirov at the session of the Council of People's Commissars on June 20, 1918, following the report by M. D. Bonch-Bruevich "on the return of the management of highways and water transport to the jurisdiction of the People's Commissariat of Railways."

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NOTE TO V. I. NEVSKIY.
[End of June—Beginning of July 1918]

What came out of the
All-Russian Railway
Provisioning Congress

¹ Lenin evidently has in mind the results of the work of the All-Russian Railway Provisioning Congress (chiefly representatives of railway cooperatives), convened in Moscow to resolve the question of provisioning railway workers and employees (from June 19-26, 1918). The Congress was preceded by a series of railway strikes, arising under the influence of Menshevik and Socialist-Revolutionary agitation on the basis of the grave provisioning situation in the country. These strikes occurred in conditions of extremely acute relations between part of the railway employees and representatives of Soviet power on the railways. The struggle of the anti-Soviet-minded section of railway employees against the policy of Soviet power took place also at the sessions of the Congress, especially in its first days of work. By the end of the Congress's work, under the influence of revolutionary-minded representatives of the railway proletariat, the resistance of the anti-Soviet section of employees was broken: the Congress adopted decisions corresponding to the interests of the proletarian dictatorship.

Lenin's note to Nevskiy was written, evidently, at one of the sessions of the Council of People's Commissars.

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TELEGRAM TO V. I. LEDOVSKIY¹.
Moscow
To the Emissary of the Moscow Circle
of Communications:

[July 28, 1918]

Send me the draft of the telegram, and I will sign it. Moreover, I demand that you specify concrete instances, dates, names of the violations you mention.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Lenin.